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Home My WebLink About14168 ORD - 02/08/1978• JKH:hb:2 /7/78 • TEXAS: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, AS AMENDED, BY ADOPTING CERTAIN NEW PRO- VISIONS, DESIGNATED AS SECTION 55 -74, SO AS TO ADOPT A POLICY ON WATER MAIN EXTENSION ASSESSMENTS, ESTABLISH- ING A METHOD OF COMPUTING A PER FOOT ASSESSMENT RATE BASED ON (A) ESTIMATED COSTS OF WATER MAIN EXTENSIONS AND (B) ACTUAL BID COSTS OF WATER MAIN EXTENSIONS;, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, 1976 Revision, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding Section 55 -74 to read as follows: "SECTION 55 -74. Policy On Water Main Assessments. The policy on water main assessments in the City of Corpus Christi shall be as follows: (A) The City will install, or cause to be installed, the appro- priate size of water main within the City water system, to include necessary valves, tees, crosses, taps, manholes, thrust blocking, other appurtenant fittings, to include fire protection facilities, and to assess such install- ation against the abutting property owners, providing that such assessment does, not exceed ninety per cent (90 %) of the estimated or actual cost of such installation, and further provided that no water main extension per this ordinance will be made to serve property, nor will any water main assessments be fixed against property which has not been platted or sub- divided for a period of at least ten' (10) years prior to the date of the assessment. Other necessary project costs, occasioned by the installation, such as pavement replacement, sidewalk and /or curb and gutter replacement, grading, etc., may be included in said assessment. (B) The assessment rate will be computed on a linear foot basis and the assessment roll, along with the necessary plans and specifications for such installation, will be prepared by the Director of Engineering and Physical Development. Such rate shall include six and one -half percent (6 -1/2 %) of estimated or actual costs for engineering. Unless otherwise provided, the assessment rate will be computed by dividing the total project cost by the lineal footage of property to be assessed. The total project MICROFILMED JUL 0 71980 cost for assessment purposes is defined as that cost based on a maximum pipe size of eight inch (8 ") diameter (with necessary appurtenances, fittings, etc.) provided the property to be served is platted for one or two family residential use or so used at the time of assessment or platted without improvements but committed in writing to one or two family residential use. or in use for school or church purposes. For property uses other than the above, the City shall have the right to assess for the size of water main installed and /or appropriate to serve abutting property use, including necessary fire protection facilities. C. The assessment rate may be computed on estimated cost for water line extension work, with such estimated costs being based on the actual costs of installing the same or similar type water main and /or fittings pre- vailing in the area; or the assessment rate may be based on actual competi- tively bid prices for the installation in accordance with City bidding pro- cedures. Corner lots shall be assessed only for the shorter side of same abutting upon a public street. The cost assessed against said owners and their property, shall be payable in monthly installments not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) in number, the first of which shall be payable within thirty (30) days from the date of completion of said improvements and their acceptance by the City of Corpus Christi, and one installment each month thereafter until paid, together with interest thereon at the rate of five and one - quarter percent (5- 1/4%), with the provision that any of said installments may be paid at any time before maturity by the payment of the principal and accrued interest thereon. Any property owner against whose property an assessment has been levied may pay the whole assessment chargeable to him without interest within thirty (30) days after the acceptance and completion of said improvements." SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict herewith, provided however that all rights, benefits, titles, income, charges and assessments owned by or due to the City of Corpus Christi under any previous assessment ordinances, or other ordinances, are hereby expressly -2- reserved and saved for the benefit of the City. SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 4. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. SECTION 5. The necessity to amend the Corpus Christi City Code, 1976 Revision, as amended, as hereinabove set forth, at the earliest practicable date creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED this the S day of February, 1978. ATTEST: Ci&y Secretary" APPROVED: O DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1978: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY Assistant Cit orney Corpus Christi, Texas _day of TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CO HRISTI, TEXAS The Charter Rule was suspended b the following vote: Gabe Lozano, Sr. Bob Gulley David Diaz Ruth Gill Joe Holt Edward L. Sample The above ordinance was passed &bthe following vote: Gabe Lozano, Sr. Bob Gulley David Diaz Ruth Gill Joe Holt Edward L. Sample (-�3 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT A _ STATE OF TEXAS, County of Nueces. lam; Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came........_ I .... U.v!rA__F.Uid4 .._......._ ................. — who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he Is the . ........... ..... of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daffy Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of QF -55.L FA Ga __QF of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in Cal 1pr TjYnP_a.__.... on the. I.I.- day of 192.8_ .. . . ...... $__27 -12 g Subscribed and sworn to before me this d Eugenia S. Cortez _4 lic. Nueces County, Texas NOTICE OF PASSAGE j OF ORDINANCE NO._._..J 14160 AMENDING THE CODE OF I IOR DINANL ESr CITY OF 1 /CORPUSCHRISTI, 1976 REV[- 1 SION, AS AMENDED, BY 'I ADOPTING CERTAIN NEW PROVISIONS, DESIGNATED AS SECTION 15-76, SO AS TO ADOPT A POLICY ON WA- TER MAIN EXTENSION AS- SESSMENTS, ESTAB- LISHING A METHOD OF COMPUTING A PER FOOT I ASSESSMENT RATE BASEQQ ION (A) ESTIMATED COSTS IOF WATER MAIN EXTEN- iSIONS,AND (B) ACUTUAL i BID COSTS OF WATER MAIN iEXTENSIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY- PRO - VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. - WAS PASSED AND APPROV- ED by the City Council of the CI1Y of Corpus Chrlsti, Texas, during the Reguiar Council j Meeting held on February B, 1975, at 2:00 p.m, and provides that It shall be In full force and effect from and after Its pas- sage and publication one timeln the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas - ISSUED UNDER MY HAND I AND SEAL of the City of Cor- _ I Pus Christi, Texas, this 9th day of February, 1975. -s -8111 G. Read, City Secretary City of Corpus Chrlsfl, Texas